Before pencilling Darkstalkers pages I like to warm up with some drawings in my sketchbook.  I've been on a col-erase kick for some time now-usually using Carmine red-which scans in kinda pinkish : P
At times I will add in light blue, blue or whatever other colours I have on hand but stuck with the red for this one.  Each colour has a slightly different feel to them-sorta like different lead hardness between a 2b and a 3b lets say-maybe not so drastic?


*the warmup started after droolin over Joe Mad's Ultimates comic(pencils version) which gets my artistsauce flowin' -this explains why some of you will recognize the Venom in the sketch ;)  I would draw a character or 2 and get back to the Darkstalkers comic but return to it when I had an idea for another character.  This kept me fresh on the DS pgs even though on paper it seems like it would take longer-but struggling through a page eats time like nothing else!

here's a crappy photo of the page when I first started it-Ryu had to leave-Donovan's arms had to be redone etc...



©Marvel:
Sentinel and Justin Seyfert(heh)
Venom
Spiderman
Magneto
FanFour's Thing

©CAPCOM
Warzard's Leo
Darkstalkers Donovan/Bishamon
Streetfighters M.Bison/Akuma/Blanka

Bonus character cyborg dread girl©joverine


I wanna buy a fresh sketchbook and fill it like this me thinks...The one I have has a blue cover-with a sort of lego floor texture to it-you know the pads you could buy for lego men's feet to stick to ?(well any lego piece :P ) there's no identifiable markings on it whatsoever!  How am I to stay loyal to your brand?! hahaha-if anyone has some insight lemme know!

cheers!
joe